What is a reasonable price to pay for an eight-man space ship made out of bamboo and magic?
America put a man in space, put a man in orbit, put a man on the moon, created the world's first reusable spacecraft, sent unmanned probes to other planets and led the world in making important scientific discoveries outside the Earth's atmosphere.
One thing no one knows yet though is who will be China's first man in space.
Classic arcade games, such as Pac-Man and Space Invaders, are particularly well suited to mobile play.
President Ahmadinejad announced in 2011 that the country planned to send a man into space by 2019.
The films, showing man in space, on the Moon, on Mars, and the "unknown", fascinated the boy Rutan.
The Czech MEP was the first man in space not to be from the US or the Soviet Union.
But this is not the first time we have watched man conquer Space.
America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, who later walked on the moon in 1971's Apollo 14 mission, became a millionaire businessman.
While an undergrad, he reportedly began importing early prototypes of Pac-Man and Space Invaders, renting them to bars and Bay Area bars and restaurants.
But today, the demilitarized town where the first man in space Yuri Gagarin once lived, is open for business, ferrying cosmonauts and billionaires to space while also offering wild spins in a giant centrifuge to visitors who only dream of the great beyond.
Indeed, the United States could have been the first nation to successfully launch a man into space, except that while it chose to conduct those last extra safety tests, the Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit and the history books.
The launch on July 1st of the first passenger train services to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, has been covered by the Chinese media with hoopla only comparable to that surrounding the country's first launch of a man into space three years ago.
If there can't be a new manned mission from Earth by then, administrators will have to decide whether to take extensive steps to extend the vehicle's certification for the return flight, proceed on a return flight without certification, or de-man the space station by flying back the remaining crew members within the certification period, he said.
That means Mars-bound astronauts will also have to skip out on the ground-based psychological support sessions that astronauts and cosmonauts working on the international space station routinely have just to make sure microgravity has not gone to their heads (Before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961, experts were afraid weightlessness might cause schizophrenia, explained one doctor).
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Among the offerings are a bid to park a Mini in a space simply not mini enough for it, a man using a space so small that he has to turn his wheel a dozen times and jolts the neighbouring cars with every movement, and a car reversing heavily into the one behind it - repeatedly.
The Isle of Man's space industry has been hailed as a "fascinating model" in recent market research.
The literal launch of brand NASA found every American in front of the flickering black-and-white images of a man hurtling into space.
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It's an astonishingly difficult task to develop a ship capable of taking man into deep space and returning him safely, which is why so much effort is being put into Orion's planning and construction.
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He's an aggressive, big man who holds his space on the court.
That saw the momentum swing back as the Dragons forwards made the most of their extra man to carve out space for Sweeney to cross.
And if the crew assigned to man the deep-space mission travels up separately to the station, it would also mean all the elements for their long-duration flight could be launched without the complications of ultra-safe abort systems that complicate manned rockets.
When opened and closed, these blinds--coated with a gravity-defying substance--initiate man's voyage into space.
It blasted a disused weather satellite into tiny fragments that threaten the safety of other man-made objects in space.
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Getting the most out of a Carroll-type centerforward requires the right supporting cast, including wide players who can ensure a steady supply of service and a second striker or attacking midfielder who can use the space the big man creates.
The Daily Show chooses the dawn of man, from 2001, A Space Odyssey.
David Schwartz, chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York says one man in particular helped launch that space craze.
The Isle of Man is the headquarters for 12 space firms which are involved in work such as developing space tourism technology and satellite communications.
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